A Destitute Mexico: Is That What We Want?

Immigrants, illegal or otherwise, aren't the cause of our problems.

Sure, America could “win” a trade war with Mexico. We could tax the millions of dollars poor Mexicans are sending to their many poor families, as President Trump has suggested. We could kick out millions of immigrants. We could create in Mexico a hatred for ourselves, even a failed state on our border. Is that what Trump’s supporters really want?

We have now spent trillions of dollars in the Middle East, ostensibly to protect our access to its oil, but also to try to maintain secure borders. For a questioned cost of some lost jobs and possibly a few billion in trade concessions, we have a prosperous neighbor. America’s real security is in having friendly, cooperative neighbors. Do we want to become like those Europeans with hundreds of years of mistrust and warring on their borders? America’s security comes from the mixing together of different religions and races, living in safety and with economic opportunity. The easy travel, the tourism, the family connections—they all unite our hemisphere.

Trump’s Trade representative Robert Lighthizer claims that NAFTA (North American Free Trade Association) killed 700,000 American jobs but then makes no mention of new jobs created by NAFTA trade. His claim, based upon adjustment assistance petition accepted by the Labor Department of job displacement from trade agreements from 1994 to 2000, has been debunked by theWashington Post’s Fact Checker, Glenn Kessler. His number also includes other non-NAFTA job losses. For example, workers at a sawmill in Washington State closed because of the prohibition of cutting timber to save the spotted owl, were certified by the Labor Department for assistance as victims of NAFTA.

Other studies report that most manufacturing job losses in Americacome from automation and robots, not from foreign competition. The same trend happened years ago with agriculture, which now represents only a little above one percent of U.S. jobs.

The greatest cost and a major reason for job losses is that of health insurance, which can cost some$15,000 per worker in the U.S. compared to just a couple of thousand in Canada. Reforming our dysfunctional, monopoly-driven health care system would do a lot to make our manufacturing more competitive. If living standards in America are stagnant, it is because salary gains have been devoured by rising health care costs.

Other factors include our bloated military budget, which takes so many talented people out of the economy’s productive sectors. Also our manufacturing exports, i.e, jet planes, computer software, and even natural gas, reflect the high value of our exports compared to the more simplistic products of decades ago.

Our factories’ main problem today is thelack of available workers. Unemployment in our industrial states is very low. For example: Ohio is 5.2 percent, Indiana 3.1 percent, Michigan 3.7 percent, Pennsylvania 5 percent, Illinois 4.8 percent. Labor shortages and government regulations lead in polls of manufacturers’ problems, not foreign competition.

In another vein, Fox News repeatedly argues that immigrants take jobs away from work from Americans. Prime time host Tucker Carlson even went so far as to say that American workers subscribed to Social Security’s early retirement program and others addicted to drugs would take on the hard work of agricultural and construction jobs filled by many illegal immigrants. In fact, crops are already rotting in the fields in California because of a shortage of labor. InHouston, there are reports of fears that without illegal immigrants they won’t find the construction labor to rebuild.

The real truth is that most illegal immigrants create jobs, they don’t take them away. Most perform jobs most Americans don’t want. In the simplest terms, it is the poorest immigrants who pick crops, do unskilled construction labor, man dairy farms which provide jobs for American truck drivers, Safeway sales clerks, skilled labor, and so on. Add to that probably millions of Americans who get help with with parent or child care from illegal immigrant women.

Immigration reform is blocked by congressional stalemate. Republicans would allow work permits for long established illegals, but don’t want to grant them citizenship. Democrats want them to have a route to citizenship. It was they who blocked the old bracero program, which for years allowed temporary workers a legal status. Both parties think that, given a vote, most would vote Democratic. Polls show that two-thirds of Americans favor granting them some form of legal status and many statesgrant them driver’s licenses. Most illegals don’t care about voting; they just want to be legally allowed to work. Also, some half of them are from those who overstayed their visas, not those who crossed our Mexican border. A solution for Congress, now that it must vote on the issue of nearly a million immigrants brought here when they were children, the DACA program, is to allow temporary work permits, subject to renewal, not citizenship for existing illegals, and for future labor needs. Such a program is called theRed Card Solution (see the link describing the program; it includes a short video explaining it by conservative scholars at the Heritage Foundation).

What we should spend money on is Americanization: teaching immigrants our historic values and the reasons why our nation is prosperous, our constitutional system, and so on. In time, they will assimilate as immigrants historically always have. Already some 30 percent of Latinos marry non-Latinos. Ready solutions exist without devastating our economy or creating massive poverty in Mexico.

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If you’re asking do we want the illegals deported, the answer is yes. Not just Mexicans. All of them.

Out.

I’m sick of hearing the lying excuses, phony humanitarian pleas, the “jobs Americans won’t do” horses***, and so forth. The end result is always the same: more illegals and immigrants, more cheap labor for Wall Street, more captive urban Democrat votes, more foreigners fighting real Americans for work and scarce resources, even though real Americans never wanted to let them in.

We’re flooded with them. There are literally MILLIONS of them. I will vote against any politician who proposes anything short of capturing and deporting all of them, regardless of age, sex, race, national origin, whatever.

The US Chamber of Commerce, The Washington Post, etc., greedy, corporate owned and financed propaganda outlets that want to turn our entire country into one big California, a nation resembling a failed Latin American country like Brazil or Argentina. A nation where most of the wealth is owned by a few at the top, without much of a middle class, and with masses of lower income people at the bottom.

Mr. Utley, if you lived in California, would you choose to live in a neighborhood where a lot of illegal aliens live, with the high crime rates, drugs and gangs, and would you send your children to the public schools with large numbers of “Dreamers” you love so much with their ESL classes? Or like other open border elites in California would you live in a high income/ gated community in order to insulate yourself from the worst effects of the open border policies you insist on foisting on Americans who are less fortunate than you are?

“What we should spend money on is Americanization: teaching immigrants our historic values and the reasons why our nation is prosperous, our constitutional system, and so on.”

Is that like assimilation? When the academic and sociocultural Left has reflexively and relentlessly attacked such notions as racist, nationalistic, etc. why bother?

The real issue at hand is, and the former President of Mexico Fox alluded to it today, population transfer, couched in the euphemism of diversity. About 10% of the Mexican-born population currently resides in the U.S., up from 2% in 1970. The same thing hasn’t happened between the U.S. and Canada, where the number of Canadian-born in the U.S. today is the same numerically as it was in 1970, about 800,000 people vs. 12 million of Mexican origin.

That’s been the net effect of the U.S. immigration system, such as it is, of our two closest neighbors. At some point, though, a state like California as it accepts more and more immigrants from Mexico and Central America, will become less diverse as demographics hit a tipping point.

How do the same people who argue that more diversity is good then turn around and argue that less diversity is good? The Democratic Party will never accept population controls based on national origin, even though ironically that’s at the heart of the 1965 Immigration Act.

Because, guess what, it’s THEIR country and unless they step up to the plate to resolve THEIR problems – which they have NOT – it’s NOT an excuse for the flood of illegal aliens streaming across the border WITH the Government of Mexico’s approval.

This is a positive for the USA:Actually, U.S. agricultural exports to Mexico have increased nearly five-fold since the agreement was signed to $18 billion in 2016.

But, on the other hand, maybe not that big of a positive:…agriculture, which now represents only a little above one percent of U.S. jobs.

And the benefit may not even go to Americans:In the simplest terms, it is the poorest immigrants who pick crops….

But if we’re worried about “creating massive poverty in Mexico,” then maybe exporting agriculture products is not a good idea because Mexican farmers can’t compete with American agribusiness.

There’s an interesting analysis to be done just to see how NAFTA’s agriculture economics affects American and Mexico economically, politically, and socially. Maybe we’d be better off not exporting agricultural products to Mexico, thereby not ruining Mexican farmers, thereby not giving them an incentive to cross the border? I don’t know.

John, if I believed the Democrats would leave it as a guest worker program, I would agree with you. However, as they drift further left and their ideas continue to lose currency among Americans, the temptation to gain political power by legalizing all these guest workers will be too strong.

As another commenter said, I don’t want a destitute Mexico, but I want a destitute America even less.

Perhaps Mexico is destitute because the US is strip-mining talented “dreamers” who are all brilliant physicists, rocket scientists and entrepreneurs (at least according to the MSM). Why not send them back to boost the economy of Mexico?
As a bonus, we could also send the entire editorial boards of the NYT and Washington Compost as well as the author of this article. I suspect both nations would benefit from this exchange.

Do we want to become like those Europeans with hundreds of years of mistrust and warring on their borders?

Are you serious? If we don’t watch our step and play things right, we could end up with Mexico warring on our border?

America’s security comes from the mixing together of different religions and races, living in safety and with economic opportunity. The easy travel, the tourism, the family connections—they all unite our hemisphere.

The US population becoming less European and more Latin American is going to increase our security and economic opportunity??? And if we don’t do that, the US is in danger of a future Latin American military invasion?????

I worked on a farm during summers in college 20+ years ago, and there were few other white people doing the work. It sucked. It was hard. The only reason I stuck with it was because my family told me I would quit, and I damn sure wasn’t going to let them be right.

I guarantee you that “real Americans” will not pick up the slack if we get rid of Mexicans, even if farmers pay $30/hour (which would vastly increase the price of food). Let’s just be honest — Americans are lazy and soft and are unwilling to bust their butts doing menial farm labor. We need immigrants. It’s time for realistic immigration reform.

We could do well to simply adopt the same laws Mexico uses to enforce immigration law there. That would be satisfactory to me at least. As for this quote:”Other factors include our bloated military budget, which takes so many talented people out of the economy’s productive sectors.” Nonsense. There’s less than 1/10th of 1% of the US Population in uniform at any one time.

I have to wonder if any of the UAW workers in the 1970’s sensed what was about to happen. Did any American workers have any idea that the fix was in and that all jobs with any “perks” were about to be completely phased out within the next 20 years. Did anybody in the 90’s realize that what jobs remained would be shipped overseas? Did anyone realize in 2005 that they would be replaced with cheap labor brought in legally and illegally from any area of the globe possible? Do young Americans realize that the jobs they spend thousands for in college have often already been given away to a non-American before the can even submit a resume? The ultimate goal is permanent minimum wages for all workers everywhere. A permanent slave class of millions at the mercy of the worlds multi-national corporations. Serfdom has returned.

If you lived in California, would you choose to live in a neighborhood where a lot of illegal aliens live, with the high crime rates, drugs and gangs, and would you send your children to the public schools with large numbers of “Dreamers” you love so much with their ESL classes?

I live in a non-gated California community with a Hispanic majority High School and it is a fine school. And frankly the Hispanic-Americans in our state sound a lot like the WWC of the 1950s tbh. And the long term they are assimilating to the US culture although they have the normal home country ties on Mexican flags, Bimbo Bakery goods, true sugar Sodas and soccer. (So nothing different than Irish-Americans singing Danny Boy) And Bimbo Bakery is larger than you think (look up website) and really US soda producers should use real sugar.

And in terms of the opoid crisis, it is hitting hardest in the WWC Rust Belt where most Hispanic-Americans don’t live. The drug problem is not Immigrants fault.

A labor shortage is a GOOD thing. Labor shortages drive up wages and lead to increased efficiency. From 1607 until the late 19th century, America had a chronic labor shortage, which created a massive incentive for labor saving devices and techniques, making America the richest per capita nation in the world. It also created an economically relatively egalitarian society, without the need for government recourse to socialist wealth redistribution, enabling Americans to achieve the theoretically difficult task of combining democracy and freedom.

There is plenty of domestic un-utilized potential labor – the unemployed, the underemployed, discouraged workers who are no longer counted in unemployment figures, welfare recipients, fraudulent disability claimants, students wasting their time acquiring useless cultural Marxist social science and humanities degrees while accumulating unpayable debt, useless government workers, redundant servicemen in our too-large military, corporate enforcers of political correctness in human resource departments etc. These people should have the higher wage jobs currently performed by illegal immigrants. The lower wage jobs that Americans (rightfully) don’t want can be outsourced to Mexico. We can import our avocados, and the Mexican government can pay for the medical, educational, and law enforcement costs of the avocado-pickers’ children.

Under current circumstances, mass immigration amounts to a scheme to privatize the profits and socialize the costs. The wealthy disproportionately benefit from the downward pressure on wages and upward pressure on housing costs, while the middle class is stuck paying the bill, via regressive state and local taxes, for the government services consumed by immigrants.

TAC sadly appears to be turning into a clone of the National Review. They are in a daily contest for who can undermine our President and his agenda the most. Is Pat Buchanan the only Paleoconservative still on the payroll?

True wealth consists of children, identity and a moral code. This is the wealth that enables a nation to survive.

GDP and creature comforts are really only relevant to the extent that they either bolster or destroy true wealth.

I want all nations to enjoy the true wealth of a replacement level birth rate, a robust ethno-nationalist identity, and traditional religious morality.

I have no interest in attacking Mexico’s identity, moral code, or birthrate, much less displacing Mexicans from their own homeland by promoting mass immigration of other ethnic groups into Mexico.

Jon Basil Utley, on the other hand, *does* want a destitute America.

Given the current economic expectations of American women, mass immigration is certain to diminish the birth rate of old stock Americans far below replacement levels. Downward pressure on American wages, upward pressure on American housing costs, and upward pressure on regressive state and local taxes diminish affordable family formation.

Furthermore, the upward transfer of wealth caused by mass immigration is a catastrophe for American national identity and America’s traditional Christian morality. Money is power, and thanks to mass immigration power is being transferred from the disproportionately nationalist / Christian working class and lower middle class, to the disproportionately globalist / cultural Marxist upper-upper middle class and wealthy.

Furthermore, immigrants overwhelmingly vote for politicians who want to eradicate all vestiges of American ethno-nationalist identity and traditional Protestant Christian morality. Immigrants may be natural conservative, but they are completely unfazed by the Antifa red guard assaults on American identity and morality which leave the symbols and institutions of their own ethnicity’s spiritual homeland, and even their ethnic enclaves here in America, untouched.

Yet another pro-immigration and free-trade screed from the publisher of TAC no less! Pat Buchanan’s head must be spinning as he contemplates what has happened to his paleoconservaitive magazine and website.

I cancelled my subscription to the print edition years ago and the only reason I even look at TAC’s website is to see how far the current staff has strayed from TAC’s original focus.

I think the solution would be to colonize Mexico, not to allow Mexico to colonize the United States.

If you are going to argue on the basis of the White Man’s Burden, then please take it to its natural, 19th Century Conclusion. Importing residents of a dysfunctional society is not going to result in anything other than the U.S. becoming more dysfunctional.

Look at CA. 1/3rd of national welfare recipients, 20% of the State below poverty, many living in third world hovels you could find in Brazil, and extreme gaps of wealth and poor with middle class flight. Is this the future we want for our children?

I notice that you didn’t use a picture from one of the immigration marches were they are waving Mexican flags or a picture of the Mexican flag wavers attacking Trump supporters while the police stood by and did nothing.

And changing the picture to include a child to use as a prop for your agenda is very transparent. What about the American children who have their education negatively affected when resources are taken away from their education to pay for ESL classes?

the automation stole our jobs meme puzzles me. Doesn’t it imply that we Americans are still churning out manufactured goods from factories which are now more productive for having replaced men and women with robots? Thus implying no (or few) abandoned factories when we know tens of thousands have been off-shored? And we also know our productivity growth has been puny while china’s has spiked, and that our retail shelves, racks, and aisles are crammed with “Made in China” goods. Could it be that the automation meme is a cover for the radical structural transformation of our economy by WTO globalization and massive labor arbitrage by multi-national corporations, “fake news” designed to have the masses accept the shibboleth that “free trade benefits all,” when clear-headed analysis shows the US is not really “trading” in any meaningful way when we run massive current account deficits month after month, year after year. Too many of our “discouraged” young workers have turned to opiods to medicate their despair and others to radical politics–as young men always seem to do when the mainstream economy fails to offer them a decent job or hope for the future. Mexico’s not the problem; WTO style globalization surely is. We urgently need a new trade architecture.

“Our factories’ main problem today is the lack of available workers. Unemployment in our industrial states is very low. For example: Ohio is 5.2 percent, Indiana 3.1 percent, Michigan 3.7 percent, Pennsylvania 5 percent, Illinois 4.8 percent. Labor shortages and government regulations lead in polls of manufacturers’ problems, not foreign competition.”
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You know at least part of that industry has moved south. There’s a decent labor force, far less govt. regulations, less union power, etc in Southern states.
I would take anything published in the Washington Post with a very large grain of salt. But I think there’s much wrong thinking concerning immigration & jobs. It’s fair to wonder if illegal immigrants drive down wages for US citizens, but they also add to the economy in various ways. It’s hard to weigh out the pros & cons because so much is politicized.
If the migrants remain & their children become US citizens, we’ll have more young people in the workforce & more contributing to Social Security.
Demographically speaking, we need either continued immigration or a huge shift in US birthrates. Otherwise we face a greying future like Japan or Western Europe.
Tucker Carlson seems like a very intelligent person but Mexicans get hired not just because they’re cheap & exploitable but because they show up sober, on time, & work hard. Few Americans have that kind of work ethic anymore. My former home state tried to hire local convicts to pick the onion crop & it was a dismal failure. The non-convict workers were Hispanic & they tore through the onion rows leaving the convicts in the dust. Drug addicts & convicts can’t compete with Mexican workers. Plus they have little incentive to.
If you visit some border towns, the little family owned stores on the US side are shutting down due to lack of business from Mexicans. So many Mexicans are afraid now to cross the border. A large portion of retail sales in American border towns come from Mexican shoppers. And there’s much US border town business created by produce trucked in from Mexico.
I think we end up hurting ourselves economically, not just Mexico.

Mexico is already a failed state because the government leaders are either corrupt or afraid of the cartels. They choose to blame America instead of taking action and fixing their country so that someone might want to actually stay there.

And saying that all dreamers are law-abiding citizens who just want to make a better life for themselves is like saying all strippers are paying their way through medical school.

Oh, and about Canada? I’ve worked with Canadians. They told me that if you need cold medicine, their system works great. If you need life-saving surgery, you’d better have money in the bank or you’ll die while waiting for a place in line. So enough with all the “Canada is so much better” tripe.

“live in a non-gated California community with a Hispanic majority High School and it is a fine school. And frankly the Hispanic-Americans in our state sound a lot like the WWC of the 1950s tbh.”

I was referring to illegal aliens, citizens of foreign countries who have broken our laws to come here, not Hispanic-AMERICANS.

And most illegal aliens do not work in agriculture, so the argument that we have to give them all amnesty to have the crops picked does not make sense. If needed, we can have a guest worker program for ag workers where they are screened for criminal records.

Also, studies show that because of the low educational level of most illegal aliens, for most if made citizens, at every stage of their life cycle they would consume more in taxpayer funded benefits, such as schooling for their children, than they pay in taxes. So it is not a matter of just adding more bodies to our population to help pay for Medicare, etc., it is how much they pay in taxes relative to how much benefits they consume. There is a big difference between someone with a PhD and an illegal alien adult with a fourth grade education.

It isn’t business clamoring for the legalization of illegals. If their workers obtained legal standing, they would have to be paid more and perhaps require costly health insurance, thus ruining their advantage.

You want cheap labor and the rest of us get crime, drugs, taxed to pay welfare, diseases that have been wiped out here, and more Democratic voters. Like a plague. A poor Mexico is Mexico’s problem, not ours. Enforce current laws, send back the illegal aliens (they are NOT undocumented workers!)

Also, virtually every agricultural task can be automated. The reason they haven’t been is because imported labor is so cheap. No American has to go pick strawberries. Having anyone pick strawberries is stupid.

The reason we got so many Mexican immigrants is because NAFTA–which favored America’s heavily subsidized and protected agribusiness concerns–decimated the small farmers south of the border. Yay! Free trade.

If you bring Mexicans to the US, the US is going to become Mexico. And you can’t educate them because the education system is a cauldron of liberalism. Now just a question; if these immigrants are such a boon to the economy, how come all the cities where they congregate are literally bankrupt (that’s if you dare to be honest enough to take into consideration the underfunding of their pension funds).

“I guarantee you that “real Americans” will not pick up the slack if we get rid of Mexicans, even if farmers pay $30/hour (which would vastly increase the price of food). Let’s just be honest — Americans are lazy and soft and are unwilling to bust their butts doing menial farm labor. We need immigrants. It’s time for realistic immigration reform.”

He is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, with language studies in Germany and France. He worked from 1956-75 in South America, starting in the insurance business (American International Group in Cuba, Venezuela, and Colombia). He later founded the Bogota Bulletin, Colombia’s first English-language news publication, and managed a mutual fund and insurance sales organization in South America. He then worked as a foreign correspondent in South America based in Peru for the Journal of Commerce and Knight-Ridder newspapers.

I can’t help but be amused by the Press framing of the immigration issue. On the one hand, you have the Associated Press referring to “undocumented citizens” in their reporting, and on the other you have someone like Andrea Mitchell chiding the White House for using the term “illegal aliens”, calling it offensive and incorrect.

The only technical terms that matter in the U.S. Code that I can find are:

“Citizen” and “National” – A person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof (plus caveats for Indian tribes, Armed Forces deployment, being born outside the U.S. to one or two citizen parents, etc.)

“Alien” – Any person not a Citizen or National of the United States.

When was the last time the Press framed the issue correctly using the precise terminology in the U.S. Code?

They play their own Orwellian language games, and it’s not because they’re trying to educate the public.

Frankly, U.S. citizens should be offended when the meaning and value of what citizenship are intentionally obfuscated. Unless, of course, citizenship has no intrinsic value beyond a partisan carrot to dangle, which I suspect is where a lot of reform advocates are coming from…

I’m so glad to finally see a pro immigrant article on TAC! Liberty usually gets the short end of the stick on this site. And I agree, the best solution is make it easier to live and work here legally and fully participate in the economy.

Mexicans get hired not just because they’re cheap & exploitable but because they show up sober, on time, & work hard. Few Americans have that kind of work ethic anymore.

I would say most Americans do show up sober and on time. It’s just that those who do usually have better opportunities than physically demanding work for little pay. A little self discipline means they probably did well in school or learned a trade so they wouldn’t have to compete for “unskilled”* jobs.

*I have to put unskilled in quotes because there actually is skill involved in most jobs… even picking fruit, some can do it much much faster than the typical person can.

It is in our best interest to have a prosperous and politically stable Mexico on our border. We worry so much and spend so much blood and treasure on Iraq and Afghanistan, but Mexico and its well being and stability is far more important.

“Mexicans get hired not just because they’re cheap & exploitable but because they show up sober, on time, & work hard.”

I’ve seen no evidence of Mexicans being more punctual, harder working or more skilled than Americans on any job sites I’ve ever been on. Quite the contrary.

Mexicans are preferred because they work for lower wages, but ever more so because, unlike Americans, they don’t instinctively act like the social equals of the boss or the client. The upper class is addicted to the ego rush they get from the obsequious mannerisms of illegal immigrants.

Disappointing to see the views on immigration in this article in The American Conservative. Yes, maybe a lot of the illegal aiens here should get legalization, but you dont have a right to walk in the US and get on a payroll. And how would we know what jobs would get done at certain wages with the lawlessness we’ve had for 40 years? We also need to end chain migration and reduce legal immigration to a replacement level (250,000 a year) maybe for a generation.
When the immigration system was changed in 1965 it was done under the promise that the demographic/ ethnic balance of the country wouldnt be altered. It’s not racist to want America to remain majority white

“Most perform jobs most Americans don’t want. In the simplest terms, it is the poorest immigrants who pick crops, do unskilled construction labor, man dairy farms which provide jobs for American truck drivers, Safeway sales clerks, skilled labor, and so on. Add to that probably millions of Americans who get help with with parent or child care from illegal immigrant women.”

This is intellectually cynical, dishonest, lazy, what have you. Many businesses WILL NOT hire Americans. And why should they? After all, there’s a disposal labor pool that can work off the books at insulting wages and aren’t legally-required to have health insurance.

There are entire industries and workplaces that have made themselves completely unavailable to Americans. You’d be surprised how many people are out there willing to do tough work.

If you want more immigration than we currently permit legally, then expand the legal allowance, and either distribute it across all countries equally, or give priority to those considered more likely to assimilate. What I don’t understand at all is giving privileges to those who have circumvented the law, at the expense of those who have obeyed the law and stayed out or who have been caught by the law and expelled. And if you want more immigrants, why prioritize Mexicans just because they are next door to us? There are people all over the world who want to be here. Either accept the most preferred applicants or accept them indiscriminately, but don’t just make the ability to elbow past the guards into the only qualification.

@mrscracker – “Demographically speaking, we need either continued immigration or a huge shift in US birthrates. Otherwise we face a greying future like Japan or Western Europe.”

So what?

What’s wrong with a graying future?

What’s wrong with a population that stabilizes or even shrinks? Where is it written (other than in some globalist economic screed) that populations must continually grow, particularly at the vertiginous rates of the past century or so?

It is far better for America to gray and stabilize or shrink as a country of Americans than to bulk up an unassimilable congeries of God-knows-what, half of them here illegally, with no sense of the American character, no shared history, religion, culture, and values – indeed, many of whom are coming from deeply alien, hostile, or even savage cultures, with the aggressive nerve to demand that we service their wants. And most of them don’t even look like us anymore …

No thanks. ForeverGrowth is as insane and unsustainable as ForeverWar. We need to stop the crazy immmigrant flows, deport the invaders, sober up, and come to our senses, or to ourselves, as used to be said.